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Nearest Communities to Rare Metals,
Listed County-By-County

The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Rare Metals, on a County-by-County basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Rare Metals:

We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring counties in addition to the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Rare Metals.<1>

If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.


Rare Metals is located in Coconino County.

The following 6 counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Coconino County: Gila, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai, Kane (UT) & San Juan (UT).

Our Gazetteer shows that there are 19 communities within 40 miles [64.4 km]<1> of Rare Metals. Of these communities, 8 are located in counties other than Coconino County.

We usually exclude communities where we still need to verify their location,<2> but for the purpose of this page, we have included the unverified ('unver') and historic ('hist') communities.

After starting with the home county for Rare Metals (which is Coconino County), we list the counties in alphabetical order and for each of those counties, the closest communities are listed in order of their distance from Rare Metals

For the following list, only those counties that contain communities within 40 miles [64.4 km] are displayed.

  • Coconino County   (where Rare Metals resides)
    • County Website:   https://www.coconino.az.gov/
    • County Seat for Coconino:   Flagstaff
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rare Metals   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rare Metals.
      • Moenkopi
        (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
        • Moenkopi is located in Coconino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moenkopi
      • Tuba City
        (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Moenave
        (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
        • Moenave is located in Coconino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moenave
      • Hidden Springs Mission
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Willow Springs
        (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
        • Willow Springs is located in Coconino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
      • Red Lake
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
        • Red Lake is located in Coconino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake
      • Tonalea
        (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Coal Mine Mesa ‑ Historic
        (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
        • Coal Mine Mesa is located in Coconino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Mine Mesa
      • Cameron
        (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Cow Springs
        (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
        • Cow Springs is located in Coconino County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cow Springs
      • Kaibito
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Navajo County
    • County Website:   https://www.navajocountyaz.gov/
    • County Seat for Navajo:   Holbrook
    • Genealogy Websites   ...
    • Nearest Communities to Rare Metals   ...
      • These communities are listed by their distance from Rare Metals.
      • Aponi-vi
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Aponi-vi is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aponi-vi
      • Mahtson-pi
        (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
        • Mahtson-pi is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahtson-pi
      • Bacavi
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Bacavi is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bacavi
        • Bacavi has also been known as:
        • Paaqavi
      • Hotevilla - Bacavi
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Hotevilla - Bacavi is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hotevilla - Bacavi
      • Hotevilla
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Huk Ovi
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Huk Ovi is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huk Ovi
      • Mumurva
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Mumurva is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mumurva
      • Pivahn-hon-kya-pi
        (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
        • Pivahn-hon-kya-pi is located in Navajo County
        • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pivahn-hon-kya-pi

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rare Metals) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<2>Our data comes from many sources and some sources are more dependable than others. When we add communities to our Gazetteer, we try to verify that we have the correct location for the community. We mark a community as 'Unverified' when we aren't confident about our data and want to do further checking.

We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now.

Since our Gazetteer contains over 100,000 communities, verifying everything is going to take time. If you find an error or can help us to improve our accuracy, please let us know.
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